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The worst flooding in New Zealand's biggest city Auckland is heaping more inflationary pressure and is posing a fresh cost-of-living headache for prime minister Chris Hipkins, who is trying to win back support for his party ahead of elections this year.

For Auckland's Mayor, sorry seems to be the hardest word to say.

Some are speculating whether the Auckland Mayor's leadership is circling the drain. James Elliott hopes they're right.

Cross-partisan 'lip service' voids the need for a conservative, climate-concerned movement even in the wake of Auckland's disastrous floods, argues Marc Daalder.

In the aftermath of Auckland's flooding, there's been plenty of talk about sponge cities - but what are they?

New Zealand’s largest city experiences 2.5 times an entire summer’s rain in just a month

Four people have died and thousands of homes were damaged following the catastrophic floods in Auckland

Air New Zealand has offered alternative services and recovery flights

The January 27 storm that hit Auckland broke all previous rainfall records and has caused widespread damage, mostly from flooding and landslides. But while climate change helps explain the intensity of the rainfall, the way land has been used and built on in the city is a major factor in…

Unless a policy reset deals decisively with the cost of living, Three Waters, the public health system, and law and order, Chris Hipkins’ Cabinet reshuffle will quickly be seen as merely a rearrangement of the deckchairs, writes Peter Dunne

Rather than flying the planned 9,000 miles to Dubai, an Emirates flight taking off from Auckland spent 13 hours in the sky before touching back down on the tarmac it had set off from